health psychologist (EN)
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Health psychologists deal with the various aspects of health related behaviour of individuals and groups, by helping individuals or groups prevent illness and promote healthy behaviours by also providing counseling services. They perform tasks for the development of health promotion activities and projects on the basis of psychological science, research findings, theories, methods and techniques. They also engage in research about health related issues to influence public policy on health care issues.
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Source aliases (EN)
- research health psychologist
- consultant in health psychology
- expert healthcare psychologist
- health psychology researcher
- healthcare psychologist
- consultant health psychologist
- specialist healthcare psychologist
- practitioner of healthcare psychology
Skills and knowledge
Essential (EN) · 82
- respond to changing situations in health care
- clinical reports
- prescribe psychotherapeutic treatment
- educate on the prevention of illness
- encourage healthy behaviours
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- employ cognitive behaviour treatment techniques
- use clinical assessment techniques
- counselling methods
- contribute to continuity of health care
- psychological diagnostics
- advise policy makers in healthcare
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- provide health psychological advice
- evaluate psychological health measures
- empathise with the healthcare user
- analyse processes influencing health care delivery
- apply health psychological measures
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- test for emotional patterns
- analyse large-scale data in healthcare
- formulate a case conceptualisation model for therapy
- consultation
- respond to healthcare users' extreme emotions
- manage healthcare users' data
- psychological counselling methods
- deal with emergency care situations
- help healthcare users develop social perceptiveness
- neurology
- psychopharmacology
- work with patterns of psychological behaviour
- analyse psychological aspects of illness
- provide health education
- conduct psychological assessement
- research design
- emergency psychology
- follow clinical guidelines
- health psychology
- test for behavioural patterns
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- crisis intervention
- therapy in health care
- manage health promotion activities
- advise on mental health
- interpret psychological tests
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- evaluation of psychological performance
- comply with legislation related to health care
- listen actively
- provide psychological health assessment strategies
- conditions for professional practice of health psychology
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- counsel clients
- perform therapy sessions
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- psychological interventions
- promote inclusion
- support patients to understand their conditions
- psychology
- psychopathology
- interact with healthcare users
- provide health psychological diagnosis
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- apply organisational techniques
- psychological treatment measures
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- provide health psychological treatment advice
- psychological concepts
- provide health psychological concepts
- apply context specific clinical competences
- use techniques to increase patients' motivation
- assess healthcare users' risk for harm
- psychological healthcare services
- psychological measures in working with other health care professionals
- provide health counselling
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
- first aid
- analyse health damaging behaviours
- accept own accountability
- psychiatry
- promote psycho-social education
- provide health psychological analysis
Optional (EN) · 12
- apply a holistic approach in care
- diagnose mental disorders
- apply caseload management
- diagnose psychiatric symptoms
- work on the effects of abuse
- experimental psychology
- sexual disorders
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- psychosomatics
- occupational health
- use foreign languages in patient care
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